So, Party time! I hope you guys like!

Also thanks to Ookami Princess for Steve's line about how many people in their group speak Japanese. LOL, he'll pick up more as the story goes along, so I'll just be translating for you guys. XD

Chapter Ten

The former Avengers tower was surprisingly in one piece when Steve arrived. Natasha seemed impressed too but the party was already starting so she couldn't be too impressed. Stark's super power was money, of course a week was good enough to fix the place up perfect. There were mostly business people and she sighed, she hated these sort of Stark parties, but she was concerned that there was going to be a confrontation, so she was there in her best finery. A little black dress with a red sash, matching necklace and earrings, and heals. She could fight anyone in anything but Steve was dressed to 'sort of' impress, which made her feel like she went over the top. He was never going to win over a girl dressed like that, even with his naturally gorgeous looks. She looked at Steve in his gray slacks and button up, "you look like an old man."

"I am an old man," he replied and he saw her roll her eyes. She seemed extremely irritated. He added, "I know this place has lots of memories for you..."

She smiled at him in a fake way, as she did when she was trying to hide her emotions, "it's fine. We have a job to do."

Tony saw them from a ways off and raised a champagne glass to signal them to come over and join him at the bar. He smiled as they sat on either side of him, "smokin', Tasha..."

She rolled her eyes, "I know what you need us for."

"Ouch, already crabby," he laughed.

Steve leaned over and pulled the champagne away, "no, celebrating..."

"Okay, dad," he complained but then looked towards the elevator and saw the familiar blue hair. He stood up immediately, "come on guys, let me introduce you."

Steve walked back with Natasha, "he's chipper."

"Only one other genius makes Stark this happy," she said lightly not trying to say the man's name. Natasha wasn't showing her hurt but he was concerned for her, none the less.

"Iraishai," Tony said holding his hands up with a smile ear to ear.

The blue haired man was dressed casually in khaki slacks and dark blue polo, "Tony, its good to see you. Is this all for me? You shouldn't have, I would have been happy with beers and a baseball game."

"Yes, you finally moved into the big leagues," he replied clapping a hand to his shoulder and then spotted the dark woman who had followed him through the elevator. She wore a dark pants suit with a black shirt, red tie, and heals. Her hair was tied up in a tight bun with a red spider mum. "Oh, you brought the cutie pie."

Steve looked around Tony to see Kayura and she met his eyes but quickly glanced away. Rowen draped an arm around her shoulder as she walked forward, "this is my body guard, Kay."

Kayura bowed, "Yorokon de. (It's a pleasure.)"

Steve saw Natasha's glance at him and raised an eyebrow as Tony grabbed her hand and kissed it, "Yorokobi wa subete no kōzan, watashi no utsukushī kurai hanadesu.( The pleasure is all mine, my beautiful dark flower)."

She yanked her hand away as Natasha grabbed Tony's ear, "aren't you going to introduce us?"

"Oh, right," Tony paused, "Ro, Kay, this is Steve and Nat."

Rowen rolled his eyes as he watched Kayura smoldering with anger at the American business man, he smiled at the two and shook their hands, "name's Rowen Hashiba, Hashiba Industries, we specialize in aerospace technology and astro nuclear physics."

Steve raised a brow, there were several accented words that weren't because of nationality, "are you from Brooklyn?"

Rowen nodded, "my accent comes from my Mom. She covered your wonderful feats of bravery during the Chitauri invasion, Earth owes you both a great debt of gratitude."

Tony turned his attention to him, "hey, you never thanked me."

Rowen smiled, "nah, I knew you would make a murder bot eventually to make up for your good deeds. So I felt it unnecessary since you would balance it out eventually."

"Nice to know you believe in me." Tony sighed as he watched Kay lean against the elevator door unimpressed by anyone there, "you can invite cutie to my lab..."

"No, she will kill you for laying another hand on her," Rowen said, "she whooped Happy downstairs because he looked at her funny."

Tony snorted, "I have something you might want to look at in the lab anyways."

"I hope not another murder bot," Rowen asked. "Because, lucky for you, I am not Banner and I will not hesitate to make you stop doing something grossly stupid."

Tony clapped a hand on his shoulder and they started walking towards the loft like lab built above the den. Steve looked at Nat and the two headed over to the small woman who looked up with dark smile. "Rowen, has the patients of saint."

Nat scowled, "you look like you slept well."

"I've run on less doing more," she replied looking up at the lab and then to her nails. "The gentleman named Happy will be nursing the bump on his head for a few days."

Steve crossed his arms and shook his head, "you really think its wise to be here?"

"I have to do what my boss asks me to do, and she asked me to look after her husband," she said turning her eyes to the lab then back to her nails. "I assure you, there is no Nendo."

"Maria went off the grid," said Steve as leaned against the wall next to her. Natasha leaned on the other side. "Why is she so spooked?"

Kayura replied, "ghosts of one's past have a tendency to spook demons of the future."

Nat looked at Steve and then said to Kayura, "all work and no play makes Steve a very dull boy."

"Work is important," Kay answered said flatly.

"Destined, I tell you," she gleamed at Steve with a wink. She wrapped an arm around Kay's shoulder and started to walk her towards the bar, "let's have a girl talk, shall we?"

Steve decided to walk away from that before she got into her matchmaking routine. He slipped his hands in his pocket and decided to go check on Steve in the lab. He looked around the room, there didn't seem like anyone dangerous but Kayura was there, so he was suspicious of something. He walked up the stairs and tapped lightly on the door before entering, the new AI greeted, "hello, Mr. Rogers."

"Hi, Friday," he replied as he sat the two hunkered in front of a computer as he figured they would be. "So, how many people speak Japanese, I didn't realize it?"

"Everyone but Banner and Thor," Tony said as Steve sat down on the other side of Rowen. He seemed distracted by the running program which popped up with a failed notification. "See, even Friday fails. She's just as smart as Jarvis..."

Rowen looked at the encryption data on the screen, "what makes you think I know how to break this?"

"You wrote the program that I used to hack S.H.I.E.L.D's helicarrier."

Steve looked at the man, "you gave him that?"

"In my defense, he told me it was the CIA he was hacking, not S.H.I.E.L.D," Rowen grinned awkwardly. Steve wondered how that was any better. He looked over the console and typed in something, "sorry, this is gibberish."

Tony pouted and the blue haired man sighed then wrinkled his nose and started another prompt, "I'm going to run an search algorithm, seeing if it can pick up the languages used."

Steve was starting to think the man had no idea what happened last night, "your body guard..."

"Kay, she's a bit 'stabby' at times but she's genuinely a good guard," he smiled looking at Tony. "Except she hates you Tony. And Happy. "

Tony smiled, "I can't help that at your anniversary party, she was wearing that sweet little number that showed her legs so great. She's a fine piece of ass."

Steve scowled at the man, "how does Pepper find you charming at all?"

"Giving a woman a company kind of sweeps her off her feet," he answered with a bright grin.

Rowen shook his head, "see what I have to deal with?"

Steve was curious, "you two went to school together?"

"More like I went to school and he bribed his exam professors," Rowen answered to only have Tony glare at him, "what? Its true!"

"I can't help my bribes proved my genius."

Friday interrupted, "sir, Happy is trying to stop an intruder on the elevator."

Tony sighed, he was just starting to have a good time with the two men he considered his close friends. He stood up and the two followed as he looked out the lab window. Steve saw Rowen tap the escape key on the board. Steve wasn't good with computers, in fact most technology was beyond him without an extensive manual, but he knew that meant stopping whatever program was running.

Rowen smiled at him as he walked past, "lets hope Kay didn't start it, she can over react at times."

Steve looked back at the computer but walked out quickly. There seemed to be trouble stirring down stairs.